edentate

e·den·tu·lous

edentate

any of the placental mammals that constitute the order Edentata. Edentates are primitive mammals, lacking teeth or having only peg-like teeth from which enamel is absent, for example, sloths, anteaters, armadillos.

In 1950, Eliseo Palacios-Aguilera first reported the mammalian fossil remains of edentates and proboscideans recovered from the Quaternary deposits of Villaflores and Villa Corzo, these municipalities are located in central Chiapas.

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